Cindy Walsh

Cindy Walsh (born November 13, 1979) is a Canadian retired soccer player who played as a defender. She has been a member of the Canada women's national team.

Cindy Walsh
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-11-13) November 13, 1979[1]
Place of birth Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Saint-Bruno
FC Brossard
CS Longueuil
2000 FC Sélect Rive-Sud
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2003 Hartford Hawks 80 (12)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001 Laval Dynamites
2002 Toronto Inferno
2003–2006 Western Mass Lady Pioneers
2007–2010 Laval Comets
2012–2014 Laval Comets
2019 FC Sélect Rive-Sud 13 (0)
National team
1999 Canada U20 6 (0)
1998–2010 Canada 24 (0)
Teams managed
2013–2015 Laval Comets
2016–2019 AS Varennes AAA
2020– CS St-Hubert (women)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

College

She attended the University of Hartford,[2] playing for the NCAA Division 1 Hartford Hawkson a full athletic scholarship. She started 80 games, missing only 3 because of emergency surgery to remove a ruptured appendix in 2000. She was voted Rookie of the Year[3] and named to the conference 1st team in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and named 2nd team in 2002.[4] She had a career high of 11 assists and 7 goals in 2002, and played a variety of positions from defender, midfielder and striker.[5]

Club career

Between 2001 and 2014 she competed in the now defunct semi-professional W-League, which was among the top leagues in North America. In 13 years she played with the Laval Dynamites, Toronto Inferno, Western Mass Lady Pioneers, and Laval Comets.[6] She was named to the W-League All-Conference team in 2008. She was also named league all-star team and named as W-League Defender of the Year in 2012.[7] In 2019, she played with FC Sélect Rive-Sud in the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.[8]

National team

She joined the Canadian senior national team when she was 18 years old.[9] In 1998, she played in the CONCACAF Women's Championship, which they won and secured a qualifying spot for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.[10] She was captain of the U20 Women’s national team in 1999 at the Pan American games, participating in all games, and helping the team to a 4th place finish. In 2010, Walsh was called back to the senior national team for a training camp in Cyprus and helped contribute to winning the 2010 Cyprus Cup after a 10 year absence with the team.[11]

Coaching career

She began her coaching career with the Laval Comets in 2013, serving as a player-coach,[12] making it all the way to the W-League finals in first season and being named coach of the year.[7] From 2009 to 2016, she was Assistant Technical Director at the Association régionale de soccer de la Rive-Sud and School Programs Educator at Collège-Français de Longueuil, De Mortagne School in Boucherville and Heritage Regional High School.[13][14] She has also led the women's selection for the Quebec Games on several occasions[10] and work at Soccer Quebec's High Performance Center.[15]

In 2020, she was announced as the head coach of the women's team of CS St-Hubert, making them the first club in the PLSQ with a female head coach.[16]

Personal

Her sister Amy Walsh was also a player for the Canadian women's national team.[17]

References
  1. Cindy Walsh at the Canadian Soccer Association (also available in French)
  2. "Hartford Hawks - Women's Soccer Record Book" (PDF). p. 21. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. "Kayulu, Engman Easr Top Women's Soccer Honors". America East Conference. November 8, 2001.
  4. "Women's Soccer Record Book". Hartford Hawks. June 30, 2014.
  5. "Hartford Chosen in Women's Soccer Poll". America East Conference. August 19, 2003.
  6. "Cindy Walsh entraînera les Comètes de Laval cette année" [Cindy Walsh to coach Comètes de Laval this year]. Info Soccer (in French). January 18, 2013.
  7. "W-League Coaching Sportlight". Bay Area Breeze. August 6, 2014.
  8. Gauthier, Sébastien (June 5, 2019). "Cindy Walsh Ajoute la PLSQ à son Impressionnant Parcours" [Cindy Walsh Adds PLSQ-F to her Impressive Run]. Première Ligue de soccer du Québec (in French).
  9. Khalkhal, Frédéric (July 8, 2019). "Cindy Walsh s'attend à une hausse des inscriptions dans les clubs de soccer après la Coupe du monde féminine" [Cindy Walsh expects soccer club registrations to surge after Women's World Cup]. Les Versants (in French).
  10. "Portrait De Cindy Walsh - 2015 Année du Soccer Féminin" [Portrait of Cindy Walsh - 2015 Year of Women's Soccer]. ARSRS (in French). August 7, 2015.
  11. "Canada Announces Roster for Camp in Cyprus". Canadian Soccer Association. February 17, 2010.
  12. Mayrand, Claude-André (June 9, 2013). "Un nouveau défi pour Cindy Walsh" [A new challenge for Cindy Walsh]. L'Êcho de Laval (in French).
  13. "Cindy Walsh choisie par le nouveau club AS Varenne/CS St-Amable" [Cindy Walsh chosen by the new AS Varenne / CS St-Amable club]. Info Soccer (in French). July 14, 2020.
  14. "Cindy Walsh : " Retrouver la compétition en club "" [Cindy Walsh: "Rediscovering competition in a club"]. Just eSoccer (in French). March 10, 2017.
  15. Piché, Alexandra (June 5, 2019). "Rester à la maison, pas une option pour les joueuses de soccer canadiennes" [Staying Home Not an Option for Canadian Soccer Players]. Ici Radio-Canada Télé (in French).
  16. "St-Hubert se lance en PLSQ féminines avec Cindy Walsh!" [St-Hubert launches into women's PLSQ with Cindy Walsh!]. Just eSoccer (in French). February 18, 2020.
  17. Prusina, Sandra (June 19, 2017). "Canadian soccer veteran Amy Walsh looks back on Hall of Fame career". Sportsnet.
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